***Graphics resource: Ancient Chinese civilization; art objects, tools, astronomical instruments, astrolabes, historical scientific development, ancient astronomy, calendars, observatories, compasses and gnomons, celestial charts and navigation, horological instruments, ships (with models), geomancy, weapons, cannon, incendiary devices, ballistas, catapults, and trebuchets, paper and papermaking, rubbing, writing tools, plates, moveable type, bronzes, ancient pottery, looms, silk, weaving, early Western books on China, Jesuits, Ricci map Kunyu wanguo quantu.

Collectors, collections & collecting the arts of China : histories & challenges / edited by Jason Steuber, with Guolong Lai.

"Based on a symposium co-organized by Guolong Lai and Jason Steuber."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jason Steuber -- Early Chicago chronicles of early Chinese art / Elinor Pearlstein -- The early formation of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum's Chinese Collection / Deborah Del Gais -- Art and science as competing values in the formation of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm / Magnus Fiskesjö -- Stewart Culin: Chinese vernacular culture in America and the enchantment of the museum / Amy G. Poster -- Florence Ayscough: pioneer promoter of modern Chinese painting in America / Zaixin Hong -- C.T. Loo and the formation of the Chinese collection at the Freer Gallery of Art, 1915-1951 / Daisy Yiyou Wang -- A tale of two tureens: the early Chinese bronze collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / Guolong Lai -- A unique pair: the bronze rhinoceros and its collector, Avery Brundage / Jay Xu -- Reinventing "China": provenance, categories, and the collecting of Chinese ceramics, 1910-2010 / Stacey Pierson -- Objectives and challenges: past, present, and future of collecting Chinese antiquities in the Royal Ontario Museum / Chen Shen -- Perspectives on collecting and provenance: the arts of China at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art / Jason Steuber -- CARP-ON: further thoughts on Chinese art provenance research / Nick Pearce.

This is a scholarly volume that provides a systematic overview of major histories of fine collections of Chinese art in the UK, US, and Canada, including collections built in the 18th through the 21st centuries.

Qianlong huangdi de wenhua daye 乾隆皇帝的文化大業 = Emperor Ch’ien-lung’s grand cultural enterprise / [Feng Mingzhu zhubian 馮明珠主編].
Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, 2002.
Preface and captions also in English.
Bibliography: p. [296-300].
“乾隆皇帝文化大業年表”: p. 301-303.
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